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Anthony Buckeridge, creator of one of English literature's best-known wayward public schoolboys and inventor of the exclamation "fossilised fish hooks", died yesterday after a long illness.

Anthony Buckeridge, author of the popular Jennings series of books, has died at home at the age of 92. Buckeridge's books grew out of the serial Jennings at School, which featured on radio show ...

DIARMAID Jennings, who was astonished in old age to discover that he had been the model for the main character in the prep school novels of Anthony Buckeridge that bear his name, has died in New ...

Anthony Buckeridge, 89, who wrote a famous string of stories about the mischievous Jennings, was approached by Talkback Productions. The company, which also made Brass Eye and I'm Alan Partridge ...

A former schoolmaster, Buckeridge was the creator of madcap schoolboy hero, J C T Jennings. The exploits of the accident-prone and eternally 11-year-old boy at Linbury Court School have enthralled ...

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Anthony Buckeridge, who died yesterday aged 92, was the creator of Jennings, the comic hero of a long-running series of novels set in the very English world of a prep school, Linbury Court.